This paper presents an overview of the systematic creation of a human-robot instruction system from a multi-modal corpus. The corpus has been collected from human-to-human card game instructions. A design procedure is introduced that helps creating a speech recognition grammar which is closely linked to semantics and the corpus, so avoiding unwanted over-generation. Particular attention is paid...

In this paper we present an approach to support the content generation for Augmented Reality (AR)-based technical manuals by modeling and interpreting technical instructions in a semantical way. We propose the separation of the meaning of a technical instruction from its actual representation and accomplish this by designing a semantic instruction model on the base of a controlled natural langu...

We aim at identifying how the English language and EMI professor are representedin an interview witha lecturer practitioner of as a Medium Instruction (EMI) syllabus training course, projectsthe teacher reader-in-the-text by overlappingideational interpersonal aspects. The words interest were manually identified classified according to TRANSITIVITY(FUZER; CABRAL, 2010; HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 20...

This paper intends to study the effect of explicit-inductive and explicit-deductive grammar instruction on the acquisition of relative clauses by Persian learners of English. The two intact classes were randomly assigned to one of the treatments, inductive or deductive. Both groups received instruction about English relative clauses using the explicit-inductive (experimental group), or the expl...

In this paper we present an innovative intelligent web-based computer-aided instruction system for foreign language learning: CSIEC (Computer Simulator in Educational Communication). This system can not only grammatically understand the sentences in English given from the users via Internet, but also reasonably and individually speak with the users. At first the related works in this research f...

The present study attempted to explore the effectiveness of form-focused-instruction in a context where English is learned as foreign language. In particular, purpose was investigate planned focus-on-form instruction comparison with focus-on-forms acquisition set modal verbs. participants were 8th grade students (n= 37) studying at middle school Denizli. adopted mixed-method research design. qu...

The present study was designed to investigate the impact of applying fill-in-the-map and construct-a-map techniques on EFL learners’ knowledge of tenses. To this end, sixty EFL elementary female students, who were selected based on their performance on a standardized teacher-made proficiency test, were randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control groups. In order to be convinced of...

background: english for specific purposes (esp) courses should empower students to satisfy their language needs. however, at many iranian universities, these courses are mostly taught based on the grammar translation method focusing on teaching grammatical rules and reading comprehension. the present study aims at proposing an innovative approach for teaching english to medical students that ca...